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Definition of Procreant
1. a. Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation.
2. n. One who, or that which, procreates.
Definition of Procreant
1. Adjective. That procreates ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to procreation; procreative ¹
3. Noun. One who, or that which, procreates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Procreant
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Procreant
Literary usage of Procreant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1856)
"... aye, as fond, sir, though I alloo a hautle fiercer, as ony cushy-doo on her
slight and slender " procreant cradle," —you can see through't, ye ken, sir, ..."
2. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"In this passage and others, Hopkins's hills and imagination seem animated by what
Whitman describes as 'the procreant urge of the world' (SM, line 44), ..."